FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[faunch]

Just curious if anyone know of any D3 schools are paying athletes or have athletes getting money through NIL? I was asked today if I had any knowledge of a school paying an athlete(s) and I had no idea.
Thanks!

I'll add a slight clarification. Someone asked me today if I heard any info about a 3rd division team paying a rather significant amount to a player that had transferred...like about double what it might cost to attend school for two years. It sounded outrageous to me.

[OzJohnnie]

I'm curious if any money is actually flowing through it.

I doubt it, but I have been wrong a time or two.
 

I wonder if there is a tax advantage for parents to give their kids some spending money via the NIL portal.

EDIT: It's treated as self-employment income for the student and is rarely tax deductible for the donor.  So maybe if the fam has a business and wants to avoid payroll but still pay the boy, then set up a sponsorship?  My super quick search didn't make a tax scheme obvious, but if this actually isn't a giant tax avoidance scheme then that would be a first.

EDIT II: I'm 100% for tax avoidance schemes, by the way.  I never heard of one that I didn't try to leverage myself.  I do get miffed, however, when I see schemes being leveraged for exactly that and people pretending that's not the point of the whole thing in the first place.

[faunch]

This guy is good.
https://x.com/gottliebshow/status/1955831016293355750?s=46

[OzJohnnie]

This guy is good.
https://x.com/gottliebshow/status/1955831016293355750?s=46

Yeah, but unfortunately he'll either be fired or running a dumpster program in three years. There are far too many people who don't adhere to the same value set as he does.  And that's a shame.

This kid, the new punter for Nebraska, from Frankston ('Frangers' in Melbourne slang) is making big waves over the last day.  A good boy that loves him family.  He's 18 and hasn't been home in almost a year.

https://x.com/cfbonfox/status/1955397849606394014?s=61&t=KbCNsWeom8KlUt8-D0TUlw

[hazzben]

This guy is good.
https://x.com/gottliebshow/status/1955831016293355750?s=46

Yeah, but unfortunately he'll either be fired or running a dumpster program in three years. There are far too many people who don't adhere to the same value set as he does.  And that's a shame.

This kid, the new punter for Nebraska, from Frankston ('Frangers' in Melbourne slang) is making big waves over the last day.  A good boy that loves him family.  He's 18 and hasn't been home in almost a year.

https://x.com/cfbonfox/status/1955397849606394014?s=61&t=KbCNsWeom8KlUt8-D0TUlw

Saw the Nebraska Punter's video. He's been getting all kinds of love after this posted. Not the same as seeing family face to face, but people are rooting for him to succeed. Also a good reminder that these players we so passionately follow are people first. Easy to lose sight of the person when we obsess over their successes and failures.

[y_jack_lok]

Didn't know where to put this but, since he's a Gustie and this board is fairly active right now, I figured this was as good a place as any.

https://golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/amateur/2025/08/14/us-amateur-2025-jimmy-abdo-cinderella-run/85669227007/?taid=689eba242a1e0e000168dd66&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=trueanthem&utm_source=twitter

[SagatagSam]

There was a fire at the U$T library yesterday. No real structural damage, but they did lose about 30 books in the fire.

The real tragedy is that the students hadn't colored in 20 of those books yet.

[Pat Coleman]

Here's the rest of the collection, if you need it.

fbf413, a few more for ya - but a little off the beaten path...

"Nobody in football should be called a genius.  A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."
Joe Theismann, 1966 1996

"He treats us like men.  He lets us wear earings."
Torrin Polk, University of Houston wide receiver of his coach, John Jenkins (1991)

"One player was lost because he broke his nose.  How do go about getting a nose in condition to play football."
Darrell Royal (1966) asked if the abnormal number of Longhorn injuries that season were the result of poor physical conditioning.

"I was going to write myself in, but I was afraid I'd get shot."
Lincoln Kennedy, Oakland Raiders on his decision not to vote in 1996.

"But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet."
Steve Spurrier (1991) telling Florida Gator fans that a fire at the Auburn's Football dorm had destroyed 20 books.

"He said, gosh Dad, that means we're not going to any bowl games anymore."
Jim Colletto, former Purdue Football Coach and assistant at Arizona State and Ohio State, on his 11 year old sons reaction to the news he took the job with the Boilermakers.

"I'm not allowed to comment on lousy officiating."
Jim Finks, Saints GM (1986), when commenting after a loss what he thought of the refs.

[BDB]

The Lincoln Kennedy quote is hilarious.